UAB Students Designing Urban Othello Game for TechWalk at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Five students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Game Development Club are developing a large-scale Othello game for an urban gaming event at Birmingham’s Seventh Annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.

The Sidewalk Motion Picture Festival has partnered with TechBirmingham to transform 25 city blocks into an interactive game board on which up to 16 teams will become walking game pieces in a wireless version of the classic strategic game Othello. TechBirmingham asked the UAB club to design the game.

The goal of the game is to grid off downtown Birmingham as a virtual Othello game board. Players, four to six per team, will use a T-Mobile Sidekick® II PDA throughout downtown Birmingham trying to complete challenges and place their game pieces on a virtual grid to win the game.

There is still space available for teams and there is no cost to enter the game. For more information or to enter, go to http://www.techwalk.org/.

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